Re: vmware and FreeBSD. HUH?

From: Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:28:20 -0800
Thierry Herbelot wrote:
> Le Wednesday 21 November 2007, Julian Elischer a écrit :
>> From http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=183
>>
>> "While VMware has a high-end ESX server product that doesn’t rely on
>> any commodity operating system, it is still running a stripped down
>> version of FreeBSD."
>>
> I remembre reading ESX was more like a stripped-down 2.4 linux kernel (with 
> the GPL implications ;-))
> 
> (or the "vmkernel" of ESX is the FreeBSD-based-part ?)
> 
> 	TfH
> 
> http://www.venturecake.com/the-vmware-house-of-cards/
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if anyone has it, it would be interesting to do a 'strings' on it.
Received on Wed Nov 21 2007 - 06:28:22 UTC

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